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- Title:
A Lady Copying at a Drawing Table
- Date:
- ca. 1765
- Medium:
- Red chalk, black chalk, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 7 5/8 x 6 inches (19.4 x 15.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower right: "F."; inscribed on verso in graphite, lower center; "Paul Sandby: Landy Seated at a Drawing Board"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.4.1881
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- copying | desk | drawing (activity) | drawing table | genre subject | hat | lady | portrait | woman
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:13047
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Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
The Art of Paul Sandby (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-04-10 - 1985-06-23) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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Kim Sloan, 'A Noble Art' : Amateur artists and drawing masters, c. 1600-1800, British Museum Publications, London, 2000, p. 232, N6766 .S57 2000 (YCBA) [YCBA]
The Art of Paul Sandby, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1985, pp. 51, 53, no. 69, NJ18 Sa56 R62 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 192-3, no. 155, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA) [YCBA]